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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
A Rush for Real Estate.
UNPRECEDENTED SCENE AT THE DALIEs
LAND OFFICE

A correspondents. letter, under date
of the 10th inst, reads as follows:
To-day what is known as the "lieu
lands" of the Northern Pacific land
grant were thrown open to settlement
and filing and the rush for precedence
is amazing. All day yesterday people
came pouring in from the country in
such numbers as only circus can call
out, except in this case men come
alone, and there is a notable absence
women and children. For fear of los
ing first place they began to gather at
the land Office door last evening, and
soon the long hall that leads back to
the office was filled, and there they
stayed all night, and until 10 o'clock
this morning before the office opened.
Then the work of filing began and has
continued all day, and yet the crowd
seems almost as great as it was this
morning. AS they make their filings
and are ready to retire, they are COM
PEELED to 60 through window to the
awning where ladder has been placed
for them to make their way to the
street below, being impossible to make
their way back through the crowd.
Notaries public have been busy all
over town preparing the necessary af-
fidavits for filing, and each man goes
with his paper and money in his hand.
So far no trouble has occurred, but a
policemen has been kept busy all day
to keep order.
We hear of many amusing articles
adopted in order to get through the
crowd and secure filings in advance OF
those who had worked themselves to
the front. Some placed their papers
and money in the post-office with
special delivery stamps on them, and
as no resistance was made to the mes
senger he was allowed to pass through
and the papers reached the officers,
but whether they took precedence to
those appearing in person, We have
not learned. Others got mp bogus
kilograms and rushed up excitedly as
if to deliver them. One lady climbed
up the ladder and tried to effect an en-
trance through the window, but was
denied admission in that way, and was
compelled to take her place at the back
OF the crowd and await her turn.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
How to Care for CanarieS.

1t is easy TO keep the can.ry in good
health easier, in fact, than 10 cure him
after he becomes sick. There would
be but few sick birds if they were
properly taken care of. Many are
neglected, and many are treated with
mistaken kindness. Their food shoull
be good, and they should have all they
want to eat. The best seeds for them
are: German rape or millet, canary
seed and hemp-the latter in limited
quantity. We should not give more
than dozen hemp seeds daily. Some
advise not to use it at all, but we think
! it beneficial to bird when used in
small quantities.
Cleanliness is all important. Be
sure Of this. The cage should be
cleaned daily, and fresh seed be given
each time, with clean sand or gravel.
Fresh water should be given.fo for drink
ing, in cups which are arranged in such
a manner that the bird cannot foul
them. That for bathing should be in
u hollow dish like a saucer, and, as
soon as the bird has bathed, this
should be removed. A great many
persons place such u vessel of water
in the cage and oblige the bird to use
it to bathe in and drink from. This
should never be done. The bird wants
just AS pure, clean water to drink as
any person does and he will not keep
in health if obliged to drink impure
water. A piece of cuttlefish bone
should be kept in his cage, and raw
apple, cabbage leaf and plantain in
their season should be provided. Aim
to give one or other of these things
every day the year round. Occasion
ally give piece Of bread soaked i'll
milk, but never cake or candy. Once
week give boiled egg mixed with
cracker.
Never hang any bird in draft OF
the wind, and never set them out o
their cages. In moulting time give
a dusting Of cayenne pepper to theil
cracker and egg or their bread ant
milk.-Americdn Agriculturist.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25

TEMPERANCE people preach tenn
perance to temperance people at
temperance meetings. They rarely
visit the outskirts of the Temperance
circle. They seem to be afraid oi
contamination, or of being suspected
If they were a little more openly
aggre essive they might do more good
might meet the people who need
their advice.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25

PIT. BARNUM was going to sell all
his property for seventy-five cents on
the dollar if Clevland was elected. In
stead of selling he has just bought an
enormous lot of real estate in Bridge
port. On his purchase are five churches,
an old court house, six livery stables,
three banks and multitude of stores
and one hundred private residences.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25

U. S. ADJUTANT General Drum, in
forms Senator Dolph that the main
reason for the abandonment of Fort
Candy, is that it no longer commands
the channel of the entrance of the
Columbia river. He says that since
the location of the fort in 1864 the
channel through which vessels passed
in and out the river, has in conse-
quence Of the currents and shifting
sands in the river, moved quite four
miles away from the nearest point,
Cape Disappointment.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
A SAMPLE pack of Walla Walla blue

A SAMPLE pack of Walla Walla blue
stem wheat was opened in session Of
the Toledo CO., produce exchange,
last week, and excited the liveliest in
terest of the members, who agreed that
it was the finest wheat they had seen.
The exhibitor was besieged with
questions concerning the grain and
the country it came from.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25

Two young ladies are running for
School Commissioners in New York
on opposition tickets. The canvass
has SO far been very exciting one,
but the Democratic candidate, who is
exceeding beautifully, knocked out
her opponent, so to speak, by dis
tributing several thousand of her
photographs among the voters. This
caused cold chill to meander down
the back Of the opposition candidate
and, as she is not particularly hand
some, further Developments are anx
iously awaited.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
Address Reqisteled Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
new Orleans, La.

0eMIMnen That the presence of Generals
NJ MI III OeU heauFegard and Early. who
are IN charge Of the drawings, 10 guarsHtee Of
absolute fairness and integrity that the chance
are all equal, and that no one can possibly divins
what number will draw Prise.
HEWGMBGR that the payment Of al Prize
e soUA0AETBHD DY f0UR NATIONAL
BANKS OF New Orleans, and the Tiekets are
s1gned ~ the President Of our Institution,
whose chartered rights are recognised in thc
htghese Courts; therefore. beware Of any inita-
ttons or anonymous sehemes.
1 Nov. IL, 1852.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
lINPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION I
U Over a Million Distributed.
CAPITAL PRIZE, 100000.
n{S4 Ii
siana State Lottery Comnany

Incorporated by the Legislature in 1888, for
Educational and Charitable purposes, and its
franchise made part Of the present State Con-
stitution, in 1879. by an overwhelming popular
vote.
Its Grand Single Numher Deawings
take place monthly, and the Grand Dem1.
Annual Drawings regularly every SIX
months (Jume and December).
:" We do hereby certify that ICE supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi
Annual D1atoings of the Louisiana State lot
terry Company and in person manage and con-
trolate DTa,cings themselves. and that the same
are conducted ,oit honesty fairness aud in good
faith t0toards all parties, and zoe authorize the
company to use this certificate triA fac
sinaiies Of ou signatures attached. in its adrer-
fiSpTnpnfso
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
MOORE,S
Revealed Reuaatlv
a. PURELY
VEGETABLE MEDICINE,

ContaiHing no Alcohol or Ninerals.
DOSlTlvELY cures all Stomach, Bov.
A specific for Dyspepsia, A stb ma. Chill,
and Fever. Kidney Complaints and
Send for circular containing record or
wonderful cures. Sold by all Dru9Qisis.
Sept. 80, 1ss7. Seatt;e. VT
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25

rNHE Olympia Gas and Electric Lirhe
Company Is prepared to furnlsh ~
above to the citizens Of Olympia.
Office at Works, Eastside.
ROBERT BRUCE
Olympia September 16, 1887. y
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
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Cam 81 aann Asa
CoinIaaissloners,

We the undersigned Banks and Bankers ,ci1
pay all Prizes draiCn in the Louisiana State
Lotteries Ulich may be presented at our coan-
ters.
J. II. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat. Dk
PIERRE 1ANAUX, Pres. State Nal'l Bk
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat Bk
CARL kOklN, Pres UAi0n Nat't Bank.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25

WITHIN five months Harvard Col
lege has received $5,O0O,O0O in gifts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25

TOR PRINTING OF all kinds.
u Neatly executed 2! the of!ice ofthe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
Anlerica.
Paris Beauties.

In the Prussian Chamber of Depu-
ties Herr Won Ziedemann made the
horrifying statement that in Posen he
had met with burgomaster who was
quite unable to remember when he
had washed himself last. But it is q
well-known fact that considerable
number of Partisan ladies, admired for
their beauty, never wash themselves at
all. Face, neck, and shoulders are
carefully wiped every morning with a
dry towel, and then rubbed with fine
ointment; they then appear in all the
freshness of youth, with tints varying
from dazzling white to a deep pink.
Only once generally in autumn
the complexion begins to show cracks
aud wrinkles; then the beautiful lady
disappears for a season. All visitors
are refused admission; madam is in
disposed. A fortnight later she
energies like chrysalis, as beautiful
as ever. She has undergone trans
formation, a kind of moulting process,
which is kept close secret from every
body except her husband, who has to
pay for it to the tune of 1000 francs.
Her far-famed beauty is the work of
the en.ailleuse, a parsonage quite ia
miliar to English readers who are old
enough to remember the case of Nine.
Rachel. I know several ladies who,
twenty-five or thirty years ago, were
distinguished for their beauty at the
Court of the late Emperor, and whose
youthful appearance is to-day the OBJ
ject of universal admiration. OF course
this artificial crust effectually prevents
any facial expression of the lady's feel
ings; she can only smile family with
her lips, she is incapable OF blushing,
and remains cold and impressive like
statue.-Vossiche Zeitu11g.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
A HghlySeosoned Pot Pourri,
Nshed Up Especially for
the Tender Sex.
FAIR WOMEN AND THEIR WAYS.
A Bit Of Poetry, a Little Kumor, an
Some Solid Chunks of Useful X
Information.
Tie Girls Should Go 7r;cyc,t,.g.

The women of America are learning
the value of good health. Rudy com.
plexions, and even tan and sunburA,
are becoming fashionable. That ter
rihle word athletic" does not now
CRATE so harshly on their ears, because
many of them are not afraid tode-
velope their muscles. AS tricycing,
therefor combines with healthful out
of-door exercise, delightful companion
ship, the pleasure of travei midst
charming rural scenery, and gntifica-
ton OF the senses through exhiaration
the sport has come to stay, Carriage
riding does not accomplish his, for
there is no physical exercise walking
does not approach it, because only GER
tain muscles are used, and the fatigue
from supporting the weight of the
body is often severe. IL cycling a
different set of muscles are employed;
the muscles of the neck, shoulders, arms,
chest, back, and limbs are brought into
play and in such manner that the strain
is equalized, and, in measure, dis
tributed over the whole body. AS to
the difficulties of learning to ride, they
exist chiefly in the imagination. Half
an hours practice will accustom the
feet to the rotary motion Of the pedals
after that it is only a matter of devel-
opment of the muscles by everyday
use in riding such distances as the
rider can accomplish without strain.
Nature will do the rest, and in time a
days record of thirty or forty miles can
easily be accomplished. Daughters OF
america.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
Reserve Your heroes.

Although we know there are many
women who do work entirely alone, it
is very hard indeed for one woman to
take down bedsteads and shake carpets
and move heavy furniture, not to speak
of taking down and moving stoves; vet
I have known women to do all this and
more, but to some it would be phvsi.
cally impossible, and many who do it
ought not to do it. They may suffer
all the latter part of their lives from
abuse of the inexhaustible energy which
leads them to overtax themselves. To
women SO situated and so constituted. I
would give the advice which I fear thew
will not, perhaps cannot, follow. Gull
tivate wholesale habit of negligence.
1t is better the stove remain up all
summer if heavy than you should move
it; better dusty carpet for few
months than that you should lay up for
yourself an early old age.
Not that homework, scrubbine.
cleaning, even beyond what is looked
upon as woman's limit, is hurtful, if
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

not carried beyond your strength, if
YOU can trust yourself to cease when
you are really and heartily tired, when
rest is refreshment; but too many wo-
men work just to finish this or that,
long after fatigue has set in. Their
bodies may not feel much more tired
than they were an hour or two earlier,
but instead of cheerful physical fatigue,
when it is real comfort to sit down and
rest, and laugh, and talk, perhaps, and
read something pleasant; instead of this
good feeling has come nervous fatigue,
a very different matter; the least word
initiates us, and when we finally cease
it is not to rest with cheerful talk or
reading, and delicious sense of work
done and repose earned, but we sink
down too tired to rest, feeling worn out,
i'll, and ready to cry rather than laugh.
We may get over once such abuse as
this, or two or three times, but by de-
grees this nervous irritability will be-
come not rare experience consequent
on rare fatigue but VIII follow even
very little exertion, and the result will
lie the shattered, pallid woman, faded
and worn out long before life's prime,
and probably the time will then have
come for her when she not only is not
able to do very much but she is unable
to refrain from trying to do. There
fore say if the work that seems so
necessary causes more than healthy
fatigue, let it go. Keep the house
"broom clean; do just what must be
done and reserve your nerves for your
husband and children. 1t is your duty.
Good Hoalseheeper.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
ORIGIN OF "T.dW."

Max Duncker, quoting Herodotus,
who visited Egypt about the middle of
the fifth century, B. c., says that as
the ancient and magnificent city of
Memphis worshiped the god Ptah,
the Egyptians worshiped five. Their
Inscriptions named Ptah, "The Lord of
Truth, "The Father of Truth" "The
Ruler of the Sky" "TLe King of the
Worlds" "The Father of the Father
OF the Gods" On pillar in Mem
phis, now in the Berlin museum, be-
longing to the time of the nineteenth
dynasty, he is called "The only Unbe-
gotten Begetter in the Heaven and on
the Earth, "The God who Made Him.
self to be God, who Exists by Himself,
the Double Being, the Beyotten of the
First Beginning" Other inscriptions
and records denote him as "The Creator
OF Heaven and Of Earth, who Has
Male all Things, the Lord of all That
Is, and Is Not" Thus Ptah, the sun
god, the god of fire, was one of the
forms under which the Egyptions
evoked and worshiped the Creator.
the true God. It is strange that
this word taw or Ptah, should come to
us with so much significance and enter
so early and so prominently into our
amusements. Where is the school-boy
who ever played a game Of marbles
who did not reverence his "taw." tis
the most beautiful agate of all his
wealth. 1t rolls in the sunshine, fash
ing like dew drop. 1t carries victory
and spoils in its movement. When
challenged to play by his schoolmate
he searches every pocket for the i'm
portant "taw." 1t is carved and an.
sraved with the hieroglyphics of his
own genius, whose meaning is only in
telhslbie to himself. When defeat
overtakes him and all is lost he retains
the talisman, his "taw," sole companion
OF his poverty, to nerve and encourooo
MN to again renew the struggle. When
ne loses his "taw" all is lost, indeed
Ihe school-boy's "taw" carry with +
many bright places into the realities Of
life that are delightful memories
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
THE LAND BEYOND THE SEA,
BY FREDERICK w. rAnrn.

BY FREDERICK w. FABER
Tho land beyond the Seal
When will lifss task DO DER?
When shall we reach that soft blue shore
Der the dark strait whose pillows foam and
-FOUR?
When shall we como to tlloe
Calm land beyond the Soa2
Tho and beyond tho Sea!
How close it o.teu seems.
When flushed with evenings peaceful
CLEANS;
And the wistful heart looks OH the strait and
dreams!
1t longs to fly to thee,
Calm land beyond tho Soal
The land beyond tho S;enl
Sometimes distinct ANA nenr
1t grows upon the ego and ear,
And the gulf narrows to q threadbare merOa
We seem halfway to tlee.
Calm land beyond tho Seal
The Land beyond the Seat
Sometimes across tho strait.
Like drawbridgc to a castle gnte
The slanting sunbeams lie, and seem to wait
For US to pass to thee.
Cnlm land beyond tho Sea.
The land beyond the Seal
OH how the lapsng years,
Mid our not unsubmissye tears,
Lave borne, now singly. now in loets, the biers
Of those We love, to theo,
Calm land beyond the Sea-!
The land beyond the Seal
How dark our present hcmei
BY the dull beach and sullen Ionm
How YEARLY, how drearily. we roam,
With arms outstretched to thee,
Calm land beyond the Soal
Tho land beyond the Sea!
When will our toll he done2
Slow footed years moro swiftly run
Into the gold of that unsotting SUM
Homesck for thee.
Calm land beyond tho Seal
The land beyond the Soal
Why fndest thou in light?
Why art thou better toward night?
Dear land look always plain, look always bright
That We may Gazo on thee,
Calm land beyond the Seal
Tho land beyond the Seal
Sweet is thine endless rest,
But swecter far that Fathers breast
Upon thy shores eternally possesst;
ForJesus reigns DER thee,
Calm land beyond tho Seal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
nErrsED THE TIP.

1
The Earl of Rosebery was on q jour.
ney to race meeting at Ayr, and for
his companion in the railway carriage
had remarkably pushing specimen of
the commercial traveller who attempted
to force speaking acquaintance. See
ing his lordship perusing the Racing
Calendar, he "broke earth" with the
remark:
"Racing is great institution. Sup
pose you are going to the Ayr meeting?"
II am going as far as the Ayr" re-
piled his lordship.
"Pity young swells get feeced by
blacklegs. Some noblemen, / hear,
drop fortunes on the turf"
"Indeed!"
"Do bit myself sometimes-a ten
ner or pony's about my cut. Know
anything good for to-day worth my
while touching?"
II am not tapster."
"Bcg your pardon; saw you reading
the Racing Calendar, thought you
might know"
"Well," replied his lordship, with a
quiet smile, "if / give you the straight
tip win it be of service to you?"
Depends if fancy it"
"Put your tenner or pony on Lord
Rosebery's Chevronel for the Welter
Cup"
"Not for Joseph! Inever back Lord
Roseberry's horses. They say he's
regular chumkin"
Indeed! perhaps they are right.
However, you asked me. I can only
add that heard Lord Roseberry him
self tell what you term chumpkin to
back his horse"
depend upon it, if it was all right,
he would not let you overhear his con-
versation. Mum would then be his game.
Why, there's lot in that race. I'll bet
you pony Lord Roseberry don't win
it,"
REALLY I am not accustomed to bet
in railway carriages with strangers"
"There's my card. Fact is, you amt
game enough to bet"
II think you'll lose your money; but,
as you challenge me, let it be bet.
You'll see me- in the stewards Enclosure
at the course. l have no cards with
me-"
agreed. It's bet bet you an
even pony against Chevronel for the
Welter Cup. But what's your name,
young fellow"
Primrose. Sometimes [ am other
wise addressed"
"All right, Primrose; pay and re-
ceive after the race"
The companions separated at the
station. Chevronel won in canter, and
the commercial traveller received next
morning short note by o messenger
from the stewards stand: "Nlr. Primrose
(Lord Rosebery) would feel obliged by
MIR. - handing to his servant eos,
which his lordship will have much
pleasure in forwarding as a donation to
the Commercial Travellers Orphan
Asylum"
The commercial man paid his money,
looking very crestfallen, and was heard
to circulate, Done! Who on earth
would have dreampt that the cookbook
ing, affable young fellow, who I mag
med was a chumpl1in, was, in fact, none
other than the Earl of Rosebery, giving
me q good, honest tip about his own
horse, by which was fool enough to
lose S25! Anyway, he's regular
trump. and he's right-I'm the chump-
kin, after all !"-Court Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
Il PECULIAR COIN.

Brown-This is a peculiar dollar,
Jones.
Jones-Why so? Isn't it like all
other dollars?
Brown-Oh no. This coin is a de-
clded novelty. Its popularity lies in
the fact that it belongs to me. Free
Press.